Privacy Policy
How FolkCity handles personal information on this educational website.
Last updated: October 5, 2026
Arizona Street Railway Museum (“FolkCity,” “we,” “us”), a registered Arizona non-profit organization (Entity ID: 0090400), operates folkcity.com as an online educational archive and urban transit heritage platform. We respect your privacy and describe here how information is collected and used.
1. Who is responsible
Controller: Arizona Street Railway Museum, 330 E Ryan Rd, Chandler, AZ 85225, United States. Email: privacy@folkcity.com or info@folkcity.com. Phone: +1 (480) 963-9011.
2. Information we collect
Information you provide
- Name and organization
- Email address and phone number
- Message content submitted through the contact form
Information collected automatically
- IP address and approximate location derived from IP
- Browser type, device type, and referring URL
- Pages viewed and time of visit
- Cookie identifiers, as described in our Cookie Policy
3. How we use information
- To answer archive, education, and consulting inquiries
- To operate, secure, and improve the website
- To understand educational reach (analytics, with consent where required)
- To measure public-interest outreach connected to Google Ads or Microsoft Advertising, with consent where required
- To meet legal obligations
We do not sell personal information for money. We do not use inquiry messages to offer consumer loans, tickets, or unrelated commercial products.
4. Cookies
Essential cookies remember your cookie choice and keep basic site functions working. Analytics and marketing cookies load only after you accept them in the banner, unless a similar choice is stored. Details: Cookie Policy.
5. Sharing with service providers
We may share data with:
- Website hosting providers
- Google LLC (Analytics and Ads) according to Google’s policies, when those tools are enabled
- Microsoft (Bing Ads / Microsoft Advertising) when those tools are enabled
- Public authorities when legally required
6. Retention
Contact-form messages are kept as long as needed to complete the educational request and maintain a reasonable administrative record, then deleted or archived in a restricted form. Server logs are kept for a limited security period.
7. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures, including HTTPS in production, to protect information. No website can guarantee absolute security.
8. California residents (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a California resident, you may request to know the categories of personal information we collected, request deletion, and request correction of inaccurate information, subject to legal exceptions. You may also opt out of sharing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising when such sharing occurs via advertising cookies. We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. Submit requests to privacy@folkcity.com. We will verify the request with a reasonable method based on the information we already hold.
9. Other U.S. state privacy laws
Residents of states with consumer privacy statutes may have similar rights of access, deletion, and opt-out of targeted advertising. Use the same privacy email. We will respond in accordance with applicable law.
10. Children
This site is intended for a general educational audience, including teachers. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. A parent or teacher should submit inquiries on behalf of a school program.
11. International visitors
The site is operated from the United States. If you contact us from another country, your information will be processed in the United States. Where GDPR or similar laws apply to you, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability, and you may lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority. Contact privacy@folkcity.com.
12. Third-party links
The site may link to maps, search engines, or other museums. Their privacy practices are their own.
13. Changes
We may update this policy. The date at the top will change. Material changes will be posted on this page.
14. Contact
Arizona Street Railway Museum · FolkCity
330 E Ryan Rd, Chandler, AZ 85225, United States
privacy@folkcity.com · +1 (480) 963-9011